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unusual facts about Gospel of the Hebrews


Hebrew Gospel

Gospel of the Hebrews, a syncretic Jewish–Christian text believed to have been composed in Koine Greek


Hebrew Gospel hypothesis

Jerome appears to have assigned these quotations to the Gospel of the Hebrews, but it appears more likely that there were at least two and probably three ancient Jewish-Christian gospels, only one of them in a Semitic language.

John 8

Papias (circa AD 125) refers to a story of Jesus and a woman "accused of many sins" as being found in the Gospel of the Hebrews, which may well refer to this passage; there is a very certain quotation of the pericope adulterae in the 3rd Century Syriac Didascalia Apostolorum; though without indicating John's Gospel.


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